Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Green Zebra Bruschetta


This evening, I got the fixins for Green Zebra Tomato Bruschetta. I always love bruschetta, and having those tomatoes handy, I had to try a variation on a theme -- some extra-virgin olive oil, some crusty bread, some fresh mozzarella (pre-sliced), some fresh basil. I'd already had a number of Green Zebra tomatoes, thanks to a coworker with a bountiful garden harvest this year.

I thin-sliced the tomatoes and the bread, set up a plate with the olive oil, some salt and pepper, and broke off the fresh basil. Having assembled the bruschetta, it was delicious. Of course, had some red wine with it. Yummers.

The tomatoes were great -- green, but edible fresh, with a light flavor that worked wonderfully in this capacity. Delicious. I saved some of the seeds so I can try growing them next season. Had to be done.

Well, they shouldn't

It went like this -- SHE made chocolate milk for one of the boys, the younger one, and he complained about it, said he wanted chocolate milk. And she said "I made it." and he said "No, like DADDY's chocolate milk." And his older brother agreed, and they said mine was the best, and I told her "Stoics shouldn't make chocolate milk; chocolate milk is an Epicurean thing." And she laughed, grudgingly agreeing. That made me think I needed to do an Epicurean blog. I'm sure there are zillions of foodieblogs out there, but I'm doing one, anyway.